Laat die Kerse Brand!

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Laat die Kerse Brand! is an Afrikaans nativity play[1] ("'n Kersspel" = lit: "A Christmas Play") by Gerhard J. Beukes (1913 - 1998).

The original text

A one-act play about a mother who hands over her child to the soldiers of Herod in order to rescue the baby Jesus.

First performed in 1945 and first published in the collection Laat die Kerse Brand! en Ander Eenbedrywe ("Let the Candles Burn! and Other One-act Plays") by J.L. van Schaik, 1945.

Also included in a range of play collections over the years, including Kerse Teen die Wind: Tien Eenbedrywe (1950), Kollig by Tafelberg; Vyfling by Nasboek; Viertal, Skemer and Masker/Kortgesprek.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativity_play

Copy of a catalogue (handwritten by various hands) of the F.C.L. Bosman collection held at the Nasionale Afrikaanse Letterkunde Museum en Navorsingsentrum (NALN) in Bloemfontein.

Google Books (1953 print)[2]

J.C. Kannemeyer, Geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse literatuur 2. Academica, Pretoria / Cape Town / Johannesburg 1983, p45[3]


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